Won Lee, Professor, Religion
616-526-6323
wlee@calvin.edu
Office: Hiemenga Hall 381
Weekly Schedule
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Educational Background
Yonsei University, Korea, BA
Princeton Theological Seminary, MDiv
Claremont Graduate School, PhD
Courses
- Biblical Literature and Theology (121)
- Pentateuch (211)
- Old Testament Historical Books (212)
- Prophets (214)
- Interpreting the Bible (307)
- One Bible, Many Readings; War and Peace in the Bible (Interim)
Research Interests
- Exegesis, theology and hermeneutics
- Currently working on a commentary on the book of Amos
Professional Association
- Society of Biblical Literature
- The Society for Old Testament Study
- Korean Biblical Colloquium
Recent Publications
The Bible: A Library of Holy Writings (Seoul, Korea: Sallim, 2005)
Punishment and Forgiveness in Israel’s Migratory Campaign: The Macrostructure of Numbers 10:11-36:13 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003)
"Laws for the Life in the Promised Land," The Book of Numbers: How to Preach the Book (Seoul, Korea: Duranno Academic Press, 2009), 425-40.
"The Conceptual Coherence in Numbers 5,1-10,10,” in The Books of Leviticus and Numbers, ed. Thomas Römer, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium CCXV (Leuven: Peeters, 2008) 473-89
"The Concept of the Wilderness in the Pentateuch,” in Israel in the Wilderness: Interpretations of the Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions, ed. Kenneth E. Pomykala, (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2008) 1-16
Hobbies
Reading children’s literature and playing with my two boys
